We're a cooperative federation of open science projects working towards collectively stewarded research commons.
Introducing CAIROS: Collective Augmented Intelligence for Research and Open Science - Cosmik Labs
New year, new initiatives!
eLife Pathways Joins CAIROS
eLife Pathways is joining the CAIROS network, a cooperative federation dedicated to building open and sustainable research commons.
Reflections on the Cooperative AI Conference | Platform Cooperativism Consortium
I am just returning from our conference on Cooperative AI in Istanbul. Part of what I love about conferences—what keeps me doing this, convening these global PCC events —is meeting people who are both…
Frontiers in Open Science
Beyond the Individual: Understanding the Evolution of Collective Intelligence
This chapter outlines the evolution of collective intelligence, starting from its ancient roots and concluding with modern digital platforms. It discusses intelligence theories, project examples, and the impact of technology on collaborative efforts. Key focuses include the role of the internet and online communities in boosting our collective IQ, with a particular emphasis on Douglas Engelbart's contributions and the open-source movement, as exemplified by Linux's development. The chapter examines how digital transformation has facilitated new forms of community and knowledge sharing, significantly influencing fields such as management, decision-making, and organizational learning. Various scholars and their definitions of CI are discussed, including Pierre Lévy's vision of universally distributed intelligence and the concept of swarm intelligence in biological sciences. We then move on to practically implemented CI projects, exploring crowdsourcing as a manifestation of CI in business and social projects and examining possibilities of harnessing the wisdom of crowds for problem-solving and innovation. The chapter concludes with a presentation of the current state of collective intelligence academic research.
Building Collective Intelligence Networks for Flourishing Scientific Communities
Scientific communities are straining under mounting challenges—knowledge fragmentation, outdated publication processes, institutional erosion and funding cuts—that threaten our capacity to address urgent global problems. Traditional scientific process
Together AI on Twitter / X
EinsteinArena is a platform where AI agents collaborate on open science problems — submitting solutions, posting in discussion threads, building on each other's constructions in real time.Agents just improved a math problem that's been open since Newton. Kissing Number in… pic.twitter.com/kYXRKMa1ay— Together AI (@togethercompute) April 13, 2026
Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.
We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.
Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.
We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.
Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 on Twitter / X
💥 Today we’re introducing Prism—a free, AI-native workspace for scientists to write and collaborate on research, powered by GPT-5.2.Accelerating science requires progress on two fronts:1. Frontier AI models that use scientific tools and can tackle the hardest problems2.… pic.twitter.com/cnLysHixuQ— Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 (@kevinweil) January 27, 2026
Renaissance Philanthropy Fellow: Dario Taraborelli
AI Alliance Launches Project Tapestry to Build a Collaborative Foundation for Open and Sovereign AI
AI Alliance launches Project Tapestry, an open-source platform for collaborative AI development that preserves sovereignty and enables local control.
Digital Science on Twitter / X
An AI-native workspace that already knows your project?The new Papers AI from Digital Science keeps your drafts, data & references together, so the AI assistant has full context of your work - instead of starting fresh each time. 👉 Available now: https://t.co/DNcG173GDk… pic.twitter.com/FQWxdfKfS4— Digital Science (@digitalsci) August 4, 2026
“Open, Collaborative and Participative Science: Rethinking the Legitimacy of Knowledge, the Policies and the Future of Science.” - looks like an interesting track during the Eu-SPRI Forum Annual Conference 2026 (10–12 June 2026, Valencia) euspri2026.webs.upv.es
MOSAIC
Modular Open Science, AI & Collective Intelligence (BiTS program)
CAIROS - motivation
Why we need community stewarded research commons
Is the scientific paper still a fraud?
The Robyn Dawes Institute for the Improvement of Science
The Least Agentic People Alive
How can citizen science reduce psychological distance to science? Insights from three projects in contested environmental contexts
Nova Scotia’s Experiment in Research That Solves Real Problems
We argue badly, and nothing accumulates. How could we do better? | Reason Commons — Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process
The Least Agentic People Alive
The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons: How AI Could Disrupt the Regeneration of Professional Expertise
Oof. Bending spoons now owns Evernote, Meetup, Eventbrite, Vimeo, and a handful of others. 1.2B is pretty substantial. Are those products…
Digital Science on Twitter / X
Governing the scholarly AI Commons – Open Future
An inference cooperative for academic AI – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
